title: Enhanced adaptive management: integrating decision analysis, scenario analysis and environmental modeling for the Everglades.
abstract: We propose to enhance existing adaptive management efforts with a decision-analytical approach that can guide the initial selection of robust restoration alternative plans and inform the need to adjust these alternatives in the course of action based on continuously acquired monitoring information and changing stakeholder values. We demonstrate an application of enhanced adaptive management for a wetland restoration case study inspired by the Florida Everglades restoration effort. We find that alternatives designed to reconstruct the pre-drainage flow may have a positive ecological impact, but may also have high operational costs and only marginally contribute to meeting other objectives such as reduction of flooding. Enhanced adaptive management allows managers to guide investment in ecosystem modeling and monitoring efforts through scenario and value of information analyses to support optimal restoration strategies in the face of uncertain and changing information.
authors.affiliation: 1] Contractor, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS [2].
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Convertino
authors.forename: Christy M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Foran
authors.forename: Jeffrey M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Keisler
authors.forename: Lynn
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authors.lastname: Scarlett
authors.forename: Andy
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authors.lastname: LoSchiavo
authors.forename: Gregory A
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authors.lastname: Kiker
authors.forename: Igor
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authors.lastname: Linkov